Example sentences of "[adj] to see [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easy to see why credo , ‘ I believe ’ , should be a dubious case : belief does seem to leave something to the discretion of a trustee , and there may well be doubt whether a rather tentative expression of belief sufficiently expresses a testator 's intention that a trust should be set up . |
| 2 | When raindrops are lying it is easy to see where grass has recently been crossed . |
| 3 | Provided that the above rules of base pairing are guaranteed by the laws of chemistry , it is easy to see how replication gives rise to two daughter molecules identical to the original one . |
| 4 | If retirement does not inevitably involve economic dependency , then it is easy to see how retirement may result from a positive choice by those people who believe they will not suffer any substantially reduced ability to consume . |
| 5 | It is easy to see how fertility has been kept low since the middle of the twentieth century , and how the control over its timing given by contraception could permit a new pattern of fertility fluctuation . |
| 6 | It is not hard to see how permission can be conceived as something which throws the action permitted into the future : one generally gets permission first and then performs the action permitted after . |
| 7 | It would be hard to see how communication could take place if we could not take some sort of mutually shared knowledge for granted , if every discourse had to begin from scratch . |
| 8 | It is not hard to see how Realism has become so firmly established in research programmes supported by official funds and to construct a sociology of knowledge explanation of its dominance . |
| 9 | For instance , if the clause imposing the obligation only to exercise reasonable endeavours were hidden away in a set of standard terms on the back of a quotation offering in unequivocal terms to paint the house , and the job was otherwise obviously a straightforward one , it is hard to see how reliance on the clause would be reasonable . |
| 10 | Were it not for the tides , it is hard to see how salt marsh could exist at all . |
| 11 | It is hard to see how Channel 4 Daily , for example , the morning show at present heavily subsidised by TV-am , could ever pay its way . |
| 12 | It is hard to see how sexuality as such — I mean , when not combined with overt physical disruption such as torture or castration — can be a candidate for the genuinely obscene … . |
| 13 | It is fascinating to see how theory and experiment have vied for the lead over the past 30 years , with first one then the other leading the way . |
| 14 | It is difficult to see how conduct could be said to be ‘ used towards ’ another person of whose existence one was oblivious . |
| 15 | Indeed , it is difficult to see how knowledge would advance if people did not get on with ‘ normal ’ work much of the time . |
| 16 | Not only are there problems in making relevance judgments on surrogate documents , i.e. , titles of books ; but also the interactive nature of the search process whereby the query may be reformulated makes it very difficult to see how recall can be applied . |
| 17 | No quarrel with that one — but it 's difficult to see how testing , per se , is going to achieve it . |
| 18 | Freud thought it was difficult to see how communism could be generalized to the whole world , unless national rivalries could cope with aggression without full-scale wars . |
| 19 | So it is not difficult to see how TB could spread from badger to cow . ’ |
| 20 | In practice , it is difficult to see how learning theories could explain crime without any reference to invention . |
| 21 | It is difficult to see how punishment could be justified on purely retributivist grounds consistently with the positive freedom principle , and the same would seem to go for expressive denunciation as a general justification of the system . |
| 22 | It is not difficult to see how role play and drama can be used to achieve many of the Attainment Targets for Speaking and Listening in the English National Curriculum documents . |